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Postbox 3 - the latest - is (according to mozillazine) using the same platform that was Thunderbird 7.
So, at this point it probably has most of the  security holes that were fixed in mozilla products the last 4 years.

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Title:
  user-id and password not sent automatically for rss-feed

Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News:
  Confirmed
Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: thunderbird

  This is a bug I have seen for quite some time.  I am in the "make
  hardy the best release there ever was"-mood today and have brought
  myself to really reporting every single bit of problem I have put off
  for so long so somebody with the needed skills has a chance to fix it.

  I subscribe to an RSS feed hosted on a password-protected https-site
  in Thunderbird.  TB works fine but periodically asks me for the
  password although I have marked "save password with password manager"
  in the dialog.  In fact, the necessary fields are displayed filled in,
  but the pop-up comes back to me from time to time and I have to hit
  the OK button.

  I have set up a test installation which is exactly the same as the one
  I am having problems with at https://clients.leggewie.biz/tester/.
  The ssl-certificate is from cacert.org, so your browser might throw
  that up at first.  The user you need to get in is tb-tester and the
  password is launchpad.  The RSS feed is at
  https://clients.leggewie.biz/tester/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss
  When you susbscribe to that in TB and save the login credentials, you
  should have TB nagging you from time to time to with a login screen.

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